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TITLE 30ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
PART 1TEXAS COMMISSION ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
CHAPTER 115CONTROL OF AIR POLLUTION FROM VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS
SUBCHAPTER ESOLVENT-USING PROCESSES
DIVISION 6INDUSTRIAL CLEANING SOLVENTS
RULE §115.469Compliance Schedules

(a) In Brazoria, Chambers, Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Johnson, Kaufman, Liberty, Montgomery, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant, Waller, and Wise Counties the compliance date has passed for control requirements in §115.463(a) - (d) of this title (relating to Control Requirements) and all associated requirements, and the owner or operator of a solvent cleaning operation shall continue to comply with the requirements in this division, except as specified in subsection (d) and (e) of this section.

(b) The owner or operator of a solvent cleaning operation in the Bexar County area subject to the requirements of this division shall comply with the requirements in this division no later than January 1, 2025.

(c) The owner or operator of a solvent cleaning operation that becomes subject to this division on or after the applicable compliance date in this section shall comply with the requirements in this division no later than 60 days after becoming subject.

(d) The owner or operator of a solvent cleaning operation in Collin, Dallas, Denton, Ellis, Johnson, Kaufman, Parker, Rockwall, Tarrant, and Wise Counties shall be in compliance with the requirements of §115.463(e) of this title (relating to Control Requirements) no later than 270 days after the commission publishes notification in the Texas Register of its determination that the industrial cleaning solvent contingency requirements are necessary as a result of EPA publication of a notice in the Federal Register that the specified area failed to attain the applicable National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ozone by the attainment deadline or failed to demonstrate reasonable further progress as set forth in the 1990 Amendments to the federal Clean Air Act, §172(c)(9).

(e) The owner or operator of a solvent cleaning operation in Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, and Waller Counties shall be in compliance with the requirements of §115.463(e) of this title no later than 270 days after the commission publishes notification in the Texas Register of its determination that the contingency requirements are necessary as a result of EPA publication of a notice in the Federal Register that the specified area failed to attain the applicable National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ozone by the attainment deadline or failed to demonstrate reasonable further progress as set forth in the 1990 Amendments to the federal Clean Air Act.


Source Note: The provisions of this §115.469 adopted to be effective December 29, 2011, 36 TexReg 8897; amended to be effective June 25, 2015, 40 TexReg 3907; amended to be effective May 16, 2024, 49 TexReg 3292

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